Category:

Municipally Designated Natural Monument

Title:

Keigenji no shinoki

The Castanopsis Trees of Keigenji Temple

景元寺のシイノキ

No. of features:

2 trees

Designated:

July 11, 1959

Location:

2-379 Kitabukurocho, Omiya Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Kengenji Temple

Description:

There are two Castanopsis trees located in Keigenji Temple’s west cemetery.

The southernmost Castanopsis stands 18 meters tall, with a trunk circumference of 4.2 meters and a base circumference of 11.4 meters. The branch spread measures 14.3 meters East-West and 15.6 meters North-South.

The northernmost Castanopsis stands 18 meters tall, has a base circumference of 11.5 meters, and splits into two trunks 0.6 meters up from the ground. The eastern trunk is 2.7 meters in circumference, while the western trunk measures 2.1 meters around.  The branch spread was 14.3 meters East-West and 14.7 meters North-South at the time of measurement.

　Keigenji Temple is also called “Shinoki-ji”, or, “Castanopsis Temple”.

Associated Texts:

(1960). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 1). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1965). “Cultural Properties in Omiya”. Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1970). “Designated Cultural Properties in Omiya City”. Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1971). “Designated Cultural Properties in Omiya City”. Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

(1987). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 3). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, locals, and the sites’ owners/curators when visiting these cultural properties.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

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